Lions and leopards and Boomer, oh my. David Wells, a former resident of the Bronx Zoo and one of baseball's notable party animals, came away from a three-week African safari with a sense of awe, a rare admission that he was scared and a full stomach.
A male grizzly bear relocated from the wild 12 years ago has died at the Bronx Zoo, where he was a popular attraction, zoo officials said.
If you're Happy and you know it, pat your head. That, in a peanut shell, is how a 34-year-old female Asian elephant in the Bronx Zoo showed researchers that pachyderms can recognize themselves in a mirror — complex behavior observed in only a few other species.
Happy the elephant in front ofthe test mirrors (Image: Joshua Plotnik, Frans de Waal, Diana Reiss)
I'm going to the zoo, zoo, zoo ... how about you, you, you ... Have you ever seen a pygmy hippo or a teeny, weenie polar bear? Now's your chance. They are all tooooooooo cute! :-)
Whatever happens in 2007, we already have the most surreal headline of the year: "Sheep have right to be gay, says Martina Navratilova".
(audio article) A few people reminisce on the spectacle in 1906 at the New York Bronx Zoo - an exhibition of an African Pygmy man from the Congo - Ota Benga